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Hi all. I'll try to cut a long story short! My Kindle 4NT was working perfectly with custom screensavers. Then I realised I couldn't update to 4.1 because of the custom screensavers. I attemped to follow some instructions to reverse the procedure so I can get it to update. Nothing would work, and now I don't have any screensavers at all, just a white screen.
After much digging around, I think the problem is that when copying and pasting certain commands off the web to paste into putty, for some reason the "x" between 600x800 was being changed to a "?" ![]() ![]() Thanks! |
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In *nix (Unix, Linux, any *nix) the "rename" function is called: "move" and the command is mv (To move the data from one pathname/filename to another) In *nix command line, like other command lines the ? character is a wildcard character. So you have to quote any string that contains it. Literally: mv "mnt/base-mmc/opt/amazon/screen_saver/600?800" "mnt/base-mmc/opt/amazon/screen_saver/600x800" When I write: "literally" I mean including the quote marks shown. More: http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/dirs.html Last edited by knc1; 09-07-2012 at 06:07 AM. |
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knc1, thanks for taking the time to reply and help me
![]() You've just explained what I managed to do myself earlier, on a wing and a prayer, but I had no idea how what I'd done had fixed it. Having never worked with any form of nix, a "move" command to rename something is a very alien concept to me ![]() Thanks again for the explanation! |
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![]() Actually the opposite is true: "rename" is just a special case of "move a file to another position" - in this case the other "position" is simply its new name. And since the command to do that already exists (yep, "mv"), having an additional "ren" command would be superfluous and confusing. |
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